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Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds - Episodes 15 And 16 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2001-02-12
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.79

Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 15 And 16 [1965] / ITV DVD:

"Filmed in VIDECOLOUR. [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]. and SUPERMARIONATION!" The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour, and (b)it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years or more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (But spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. [+]
) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. -Mark Walker.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Blue Peter Makes...A Thunderbirds Tracy Island
Release date: 1993-02-19
Run time: 14 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £3.49

Review Blue Peter Makes...A Thunderbirds Tracy Island / 2 Entertain Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Thunderbirds 6: The Movie [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Dyneley
  • Jeremy Wilkin
  • Matt Zimmerman
  • Shane Rimmer
  • Sylvia Anderson
  • David Lane
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Gerry Anderson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.29

Review Thunderbirds 6: The Movie [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

Thunderbird 6 was the second feature spin-off from the hit Gerry Anderson puppet-animation TV series Thunderbirds, and revolved around a new addition to the line-up of International Rescue's five emergency craft. The plot sees Lady Penelope, Alan, Tin-Tin and Parker as the only passengers on the maiden, round-the-world flight of a futuristic airship, which is hijacked in a bid to capture Thunderbirds 1 and 2. From the moment Alan arrives on a Bond-style jetpack, the film veers away from the TV show into espionage adventure territory, and while the only people International Rescue rescue are their own members, they kill a fair number of baddies. The global tour means there are more locations than ever, and though the story takes a long time developing, the Die Hard-on-an-airship finale delivers the most explosive set piece of Gerry Anderson's career. As for Thunderbird 6, opinion remains divided as to whether it's an ingenious twist or a disappointing gimmick, but the movie's blend of model and live-action footage results in two superbly staged stunt sequences. Predecessor Thunderbirds Are Go (1968) is also available, and the Andersons would make one further feature film, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969). On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 ratio image is sharp, full of detail and boasting well-saturated colours, only the briefest moments of damage and some graininess revealing the age of the print. The film was shot in ultra-wide Techniscope, and there are moments were it is very obvious that parts of the original 2. 74:1 picture have been cropped at the sides. [+]
The mono sound is powerful with no hint of distortion. Extras are the original trailer, galleries of behind the scenes photos and promotional artwork, though the highlight is the highly informative commentary by Sylvia Anderson and director David Lane where they note how they made this film and worked on Captain Scarlet simultaneously. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review MGM Entertainment / Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbirds 6
Actors & Directors
  • Thunderbirds
Release date: 1992-06-29
Run time: 181 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.99

Review Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbirds 6 / MGM Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 7 - Martian Invasion / Brink Of Disaster / Path Of Destruction [1964]
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 143 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.75

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 7 - Martian Invasion / Brink Of Disaster / Path Of Destruction [1964] / 4 Front Video:


Review / Thunderbirds V14-Cham Cham
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.98

Review Thunderbirds V14-Cham Cham:


Review Universal Pictures Video / The Thunderbirds [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Edwards
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Bill Paxton
  • Brady Corbet
  • Sophia Myles
Release date: 2004-11-15
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.97

Review The Thunderbirds [2004] / Universal Pictures Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Fabulous Thunderbirds
Price: £10.99

Review Fabulous Thunderbirds-Tuff:


Review MGM Entertainment / Thunderbirds Are Go - The Movie [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvia Anderson
  • David Lane
  • Peter Dyneley
  • Jeremy Wilkin
  • Shane Rimmer
  • Matt Zimmerman
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: John Read
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.24

Review Thunderbirds Are Go - The Movie [1966] / MGM Entertainment:

Thunderbirds Are Go followed the remarkable success of the Thunderbirds television series, bringing the three-dimensional puppet animation adventures of International Rescue to the big screen. Set in the 21st century, there is no attempt to explain the background story: as in the TV show International Rescue is a private family organisation who use hi-tech craft to rescue anyone in peril. Here it is the first manned flight to Mars which is in danger, as International Rescue foils a sabotage attempt at the launch, then race to avert disaster when the spaceship returns to earth. What could have made a 50-minute TV episode is expanded to feature length with Martian "rock monsters" and a surreal dream-sequence involving Alan Tracy, Lady Penelope and "Cliff Richard Jnr" & the Shadows, with a new song performed by the real Cliff and the Shadows. In the cinemas this was competing against another British children's TV SF spin-off, the equally colourful Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD, and would be followed by Thunderbird 6 (1968). Yet apart from more complex model work, a bigger orchestra and even bigger explosions, on TV this plays like a widescreen double-length episode. On the DVD: The mono sound is powerful, with Barry Gray's stirring music suffering intermittent distortion. Presented in anamorphic widescreen the picture is very good, with strong colours and only minimal grain, though the print does show occasional damage. Unfortunately the original extremely wide 2. 74:1 Techniscope image is cropped to more conventional 2. [+]
35:1, to the extent that the careful compositions are noticeably damaged, which director David Lane refers to in his joint commentary with producer Sylvia Anderson (who also played Lady Penelope). 35 years after the event their commentary is packed with details of the filming process and full of information about the many problems of and solutions to making an animated feature. Both Anderson fans and budding animators will find this a real education. The original, rather battered, trailer is included, as are galleries of behind the scenes photos, promotional artwork and posters. Altogether it's rather FABulous. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 1 - Countdown To Disaster [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 1 - Countdown To Disaster [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds - Episodes 5 And 6 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2000-11-13
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.21

Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 5 And 6 [1965] / ITV DVD:

"Filmed in VIDECOLOR [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracy boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catch phrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracy, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. ) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this tape: The episodes are: "Edge of Impact" and "Day of Disaster".

Review Artsmagic / Thunderbirds And Blue Angels
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £10.00

Review Thunderbirds And Blue Angels / Artsmagic:


Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds - Volume 2 Episodes 3 And 4 [1965] The Perils of Penelope + Terror in New York City
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2000-09-11
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.26

Review Thunderbirds - Volume 2 Episodes 3 And 4 [1965] The Perils of Penelope + Terror in New York City / ITV DVD:

"Filmed in VIDECOLOR [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too) and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracy boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracy, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. ) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nailbitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this tape: Lady Penelope indulges in some James Bond-style counter-espionage measures in the third episode, "The Perils of Penelope", while Parker indulges some of his famous Eliza Dolittle-isms; although he is trumped by the Cary Grant sound-a-like character Sir Jeremy Hodge (or 'odge as Parker would have it), whose response to a crisis is, "I say, open the door, we're British!". Then it's back to the action for the fourth episode, "Terror in New York City", in which poor Virgil is shot down by the US Navy in Thunderbird 2 before the boys must rescue an unscrupulous newshound from the wreckage of the Empire State Building (featuring the first appearance of their very own yellow submarine, Thunderbird 4) -Mark Walker.

Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 4 - Pit Of Peril / City Of Fire / Attack Of The Alligators [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 145 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
Price: £5.99

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 4 - Pit Of Peril / City Of Fire / Attack Of The Alligators [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.95

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review POLYGRAM / Captain Scarlet/Thunderbirds 2086
Actors & Directors
  • CAPTAIN SCARLET
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £4.99

Review Captain Scarlet/Thunderbirds 2086 / POLYGRAM:

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Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds - Episodes 23 And 24 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2001-05-14
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.48

Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 23 And 24 [1965] / ITV DVD:


Run time: 46 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £28.16

Review Thunderbirds 2086-Nightmare/Metal / ITC LL0007:


Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 11 - The Imposters / Man From MI5 / Security Hazard [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 145 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.99

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 11 - The Imposters / Man From MI5 / Security Hazard [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review Thunderbirds / Thunderbirds - The Brains Behind Thunderbirds
Release date: 2000-09-11
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.00

Review Thunderbirds - The Brains Behind Thunderbirds / Thunderbirds:

The Brains Behind Thunderbirds is an ideal overview of the show's premise-both for the generations of kids growing up ready to embrace it, and for the generations who have already grown up, but would welcome a reminder. From a secret laboratory somewhere on Tracy Island, stuttering science genius Brains is your host. In the course of the hour-long documentary, the viewer is introduced to each of International Rescue's gadget-tastic vehicles. There's the 15,000 mph Thunderbird 1 rocket piloted by Scott Tracy; the freight-carrying Thunderbird 2 with its six different rescue machine pods piloted by brother Virgil; the space rocket Thunderbird 3 with Alan Tracy at the helm; sub-aquatic Thunderbird 4 with Gordon Tracy aboard; and the orbiting space station Thunderbird 5 overseen by a rather solitary John Tracy. Brains then introduces us properly to each of the brothers, their father Jeff, gorgeous London agent Lady Penelope and her butler Parker, and even warns us about their deadly enemy, The Hood. Lots of clips illustrate the vehicles' capabilities and characters' personalities. Although there's little on offer not already known to die-hard fans, it's an ideal no-strings-attached crash course introduction for everyone else. -Paul Tonks.

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Thunderbirds - Episodes 15 And 16 [1965], Blue Peter Makes...A Thunderbirds Tracy Island, Thunderbirds 6: The Movie [1968], Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbirds 6, Thunderbirds - Vol. 7 - Martian Invasion / Brink Of Disaster / Path Of Destruction [1964], Thunderbirds V14-Cham Cham, The Thunderbirds [2004], Fabulous Thunderbirds-Tuff, Thunderbirds Are Go - The Movie [1966], Thunderbirds - Vol. 1 - Countdown To Disaster [1965], Thunderbirds - Episodes 5 And 6 [1965], Thunderbirds And Blue Angels, Thunderbirds - Volume 2 Episodes 3 And 4 [1965] The Perils of Penelope + Terror in New York City, Thunderbirds - Vol. 4 - Pit Of Peril / City Of Fire / Attack Of The Alligators [1965], Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965], Captain Scarlet/Thunderbirds 2086, Thunderbirds - Episodes 23 And 24 [1965], Thunderbirds 2086-Nightmare/Metal, Thunderbirds - Vol. 11 - The Imposters / Man From MI5 / Security Hazard [1965], Thunderbirds - The Brains Behind Thunderbirds

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